From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 21:29:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06562 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hermes.iaccess.com.au (hermes.iaccess.com.au [203.5.74.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06182 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 21:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@iaccess.com.au) Received: from alpine.iaccess (andrew@alpine.iaccess.com.au [203.5.74.227]) by hermes.iaccess.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA14514; Mon, 11 May 1998 14:25:28 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <032901bd7c95$648d6000$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess> From: "Andrew Specht" To: "Studded" Cc: Subject: Re: gzip and date??? Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:29:31 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG great :) thank for that.. Andrew Specht | System Administrator E-mail: andrew@iaccess.com.au | Internet Access Australia Internet: http://www.iaccess.com.au | Melbourne, Australia -----Original Message----- From: Studded To: Andrew Specht Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 2:19 PM Subject: Re: gzip and date??? >Andrew Specht wrote: >> >> hey, >> >> Would anyone know how to make gzip include the date in the zipped file? >> >> eg: >> >> cache.log >> cache.log.gz.050598 >> >> does that work? nothing in the man pages about it. > > gzip caris-stats -S .`date +%m%d%y`.gz > >Make sure to put the .gz at the end otherwise gunzip seems to have >trouble decoding it. > >Doug >-- >*** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** >*** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet >*** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. >*** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message